module

noun modules

1. A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. A friend who’s spent decades as an auto mechanic recently confided that he’s grateful to be nearing retirement. “These Teslas,” he told me, “they’re not even cars anymore – they’re computers on wheels. When something goes wrong, you don’t fix it; you just replace entire modules.” What was once a cra
2. A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
3. A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines. Class modules are similar to form modules except they do not have a visible interface (GUI).
4. A unit of education covering a single topic. Which modules are you studying next year?
5. A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game. Dragonborn […] first appeared in the Dragons of Despair module (1984) for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as “dragonmen.”
6. An abelian group equipped with the operation of multiplication by an element of a ring (or another of certain algebraic objects), representing a generalisation of the concept of vector space with scalar multiplication. Modules over a ring are a generalization of abelian groups (which are modules over #92;textstyle#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;).
7. A fractal element.
8. A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker. I composed a number of techno and rave modules back in the 1990s.

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9. A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
10. An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.